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package com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior;

import org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable.InputStream;

import com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior.Identifiable;

/**
 * Factory interface for creating Identifiables.
 */
public interface IdentifiableFactory {
    /**
     * Return the id of this factory, which is the id of the result
     * of any create call.
     */
    public int getId();

    /**
     * Construct the appropriate Identifiable object with the
     * given id from the InputStream is.
     */
    public Identifiable create(InputStream in);
}
